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DOROTHY L. MARTIN, OF OXFORD TOWNSHIP, \VARREN COUNTY, N. J.

MEDICAL COMPOUND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 248,594, dated October 25, 1881.

Application filed August 4, 1881. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DOROTHY L. MARTIN, citizen of the United States, residing at UK- ford township, in the county of \Varren and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful composition of matter to be used for the treatment of the chills and fever, the gravel, the kidney disease, the whites, and weakness of the womb, ofwhich the following is aspecification.

My composition consists of the followingingredients, combined in the proportions stated: bitter-root, one-halfounce; dogwood-blossom, one-half ounce; cayenne-pepper, one-quarter ounce; one pint hestrye whisky. These ingredients are to be thoroughly mingled by agitation.

In using the above-named composition the patient takes'one table-spoonful before each meal if a person over ten years of age, and if under ten years of age one tea-spoonful before each meaL' lf, however, the chill is coming on, the patient should take, it over ten years of age, two table-spoonsful immediately; if under ten years ot'age, two tea-spoonfuls immediately. If the chill is off then the patient does not take any until the fever has left him.

()f the remaining diseases specified above the patient takes one tablespoonful three times a day before meals.

In the ease of chills and fever this compo-- sition, if taken according to the above directions,will effect a permanent cure in one weeks time, and the patient in the other diseases above specified will be relieved in two days, and permanently cured in one month.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is 

